One of Egypt's best-loved thespians is taking on a new role behind the scenes, reports Kamal Sultan
The choice of Riad El-Kholi as director of the Theatre Art House (TAH), the top job in Egyptian theatre, has raised a few eyebrows. Is he going to be (...)
Several top Egyptian actors turned from the small screen to radio last Ramadan, reports Kamal Sultan
Top notch actors appeared on various shows aired this year, during Ramadan, and some of them had turned down lucrative television offers to work for (...)
Kamal Sultan meets a veteran actress who played a royal role in Ramadan
I am to meet Layla Taher backstage at the Al-Salam Theatre, where she is appearing in Sameh Mahran's new comedy Habbak Awadein Tamer.
Layla Taher is one of Egypt's most popular (...)
Scriptwriter Ahmed Abdallah tells Kamal Sultan that the critics are just doing their job
The scriptwriter Ahmed Abdallah was born in Bein Al-Sarayat in Cairo on 1 April 1965. He graduated from the Law College at Cairo University in the same class as (...)
Cash-strapped Internet radio stations are wooing the public on tight budgets, reports Kamal Sultan
Since the dawn of humankind, Homo sapiens have lived through one crucial stage of evolution after another. They saw language develop from signing to (...)
The 1970s are back, which is good news for music lovers, writes Kamal Sultan
Al-Masriyin, a band that was hugely popular in the 1970s and 80s has been resuscitated. The band -- whose name translates as "the Egyptians" -- first got together in 1977 (...)
Kamal Sultan talks to screen idol Hussein Fahmi about his new film, his recent television show and the Cairo Film Festival
Hussein Fahmi is one of Egypt's leading film actors and a familiar face on television. He starred in the television dramas (...)
Television and radio programming deals are signed and sealed long before they are aired. Kamal Sultan takes a sneak preview of this year's titles
The Cairo Arab Media Festival is where television producers and drama moguls go to promote their (...)
The rave reviews that greeted the biographical drama about Umm Kolthoum ushered in a wave of televised biographies that is not over yet, says Kamal Sultan
First there was the life of Umm Kolthoum; then King Farouk starring Syrian actor Tayyem (...)
The Ramadan TV soap train is bearing down on us. Kamal Sultan lists the options
Ramadan is a boom time for soap opera addicts, and this year is no exception. With 40 shows hitting the small screen simultaneously, Ramadan television dramas are (...)
Kamal Sultan documents the latest in an unending string of clashes between pop stars
A quarrel between two Arab pop stars -- in this case, Amr Diab and Tamer Hosni -- is hardly out of the ordinary. As far as Diab is concerned, at least until he (...)
Actress Ghada Abdel-Razeq is honoured to be compared with Nadia El-Guindi in her forthcoming television role, she tells kamal Sultan
Ghada Abdel-Razeq once envisaged a career far removed from acting: she holds a degree in computer sciences. This (...)
Kamal Sultan talks to Feras Ibrahim, one of the most promising Syrian actors of his generation
Actor and producer Feras Ibrahim is an established star of Syrian drama, but his first kick at acting was in Egypt, where his mother came from. She had (...)